Allan Fielding Wood Turner Website

I have been editing some photos today to build a website for my dad for his woodturning.  He does some really lovely stuff...

 

 

 

Knitting With Wire

I have been introduced to a new game of knitting with wire which can then be used to make necklaces and bracelets.  I need to buy myself some of the right gauge wire to use to really play at doing this but for now I have had a go at this using some of Mum's wire and some generic seed beads just to see how I got on with it.

This was having a go at just knitting with the wire on its own...

 

...and this was having a go at doing it with beads...

 

I am going to The Big Bead Show at Sandown Park on 1st April so am going to buy more stuff to play with there.  I cant wait :0)

Gift Box

I have bought lots of the Hobbycraft little cardboard boxes over the years and keep meaning to decorate them but never seem to get round to it so I thought I would have a little experiment with one of them this evening.

I roughly stamped on yellow and orange all over the box so it had a nice slightly dappled effect and then covered it in holographic embossing powder and heat gunned it to emboss it.  I love the effect it has given, reminds me slightly of goldfish!!

 

I initially tried just stamping an image on the lid but the middle section of the stamp didn't press down and make contact.  Then when I tried to re-do it I didn't manage to get the stamp lined up properly with the first attempt so it came out looking blurred and naff :0(  So I decided to cover it up by making an overlay for the top to cover up my mistake!  I used the same yellow and orange ink to make the dabbled effect base on a piece of paper, stamped on the image and then used ultra thick embossing powder with a bit of holographic powder sprinkled on top so when it was heat gunned it had a nice smooth shiny texture to it, it almost has a plastic kind of feel to it and definitely doesn't look like paper now......

 

...I cut it to size and then stuck it on with PVA glue.  So there we have a rather shiny, sparkley box for a very special friend.  I do have a photo of whats inside but I will add that after their birthday so I don't ruin the surprise for them as I know they look at this blog sometimes ;0) I hope you like it xx

Birthday Card

I have used the wire flowers I made to create this birthday card.  I added some smiley faces and edged it with red holographic line stickers to frame it with a little bit of red diamonte and stars in the corners.  Its not supposed to be a polished and refined card but something silly for someone special to make them smile :0)

Tribal Doodle Doooo!

Wire Beady Necklace 4

For a friends birthday present....hope she likes it!!

 

Peacock Hat

I was going to wear my red feather hat I created for the Christmas night out to my friends wedding today but then I went shopping on Wednesday night and my outfit is now blue with a pashmina with peacock feathers all over it.  So as a result I decided it was time to big up my other mini top hat which only hat the little bit of Ostrich feather fluff on the back.  So I have added a couple of peacock feathers to it and think its looking rather dapper now!!

Wire Flowers

This week I have been mainly making wire flowers!  I have a few birthdays coming up so I have been making these to go on cards.

Johnny's dad was rushed into hospital the tail end of last week and is still in intensive care so its been a bit of a struggle to keep this project going lately.  As a result I have not done as much this week but hey ho I haven't given up on it and will keep trying to fit stuff in when I can!

Wedding Card

My friend is getting married next Friday so todays project has been to make her a card.  As I'm enjoying playing with wire and beads so much at the moment I thought I would have a play at incorporating them into cards.  So here we have two intertwined hearts...

Valentines Card

Ive not been feeling well this week so I have managed to miss a few days...hey ho we are only human!

Valentines day is coming up so I thought I had better get a card made before I forgot.  I saw this idea on the paperchase website but didnt want to buy it as I wanted to make it my way!!

The photo is pants as the camera and scanner seem to both be struggling with this one.  It has a wiggly eye and the middle section has a holograhic heart which comes and goes when you tip the card.

As my man has a habit of saying he loves me by pointing to his eye then his heart then me I thought this would amuse him greatly, we shall see!!

Multicoloured Doodling 2

Still feeling shattered so just finished this off today.  I'm not feeling the love for the multicoloured doodles, think I prefer them monotone...

Multicoloured Doodling 1

 

I didn't really have much inspiration this evening as didn't get much sleep so I just had a bit of a poodle with my fine liners

Cats Whiskers Training Day

We had our annual training day today where we brainstorm new designs to be offered for the coming year.  I came up with this Dora The Explorer Backpack design for cheek art...

 

Here's Becky working on a Dora The Explorer Design....

 

I managed to revise the Union Jack Crown design and Painted it on the lovely Ruthey, I much prefer this version!

 

I did a little tribal turtle doodle on my hand...

 

....and then we practiced some of Helen's new designs for the board.  First one was the Sweetheart Mask....

 

....and then the Rainbow face....

Flower Paisley Finished

Flower Paisley 3

More Flower Paisley

Flower Paisley

Let There Be Colour!

Ok so Ive been a wuss and printed a copy of it off to colour and I still cant decide if I prefer it monotone or colour..